Monday, May 25, 2015

The Voice of the Fish

On June 23, 1626, a
fishmonger in Cambridge, England gutted a cod and found a book inside,
wrapped in a sailcloth. It was a discourse on the sacraments written by
Protestant priest, John Firth, burned at the stake in 1533. Before he
was executed he was imprisoned in an Oxford fish cellar, where he wrote
the treatise, stuffed it in a fish, and threw the fish back out into the
water, presumably. The volume was called Vox Pisces, The Voice of the
Fish.
I wanted to make a painting about that. So I will.
Vox Pisces, 8″ x 10″, a work in progress by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler